Signal to syntax: Bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition. James L. Morgan and Katherine Demuth (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. Pp. 487

In February 1993, a conference was organized at Brown University, Providence, RI, where an interesting mélange of theoretical linguists, computer scientists, acousticians, psycholinguists, and cognitive scientists discussed issues bearing on how children's perception and representation of the speech stream may contribute to the acquisition of syntax. The contents of the current volume are based on the proceedings of this conference.